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A man was forcibly escorted out of the venue for the joint press conference between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the two leaders held a meeting with their aides behind closed doors.

A protester was removed from the venue where President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were about to address journalists. He was holding sign that read "Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty."
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A man argues with a security staff on a protest poster prior to a press conference after the meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018.(Photo: Markus Schreiber, AP)

The man was sitting about 10 rows back on the U.S. side of the room among the press, in the second seat from the aisle. He held up a sign that read "Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty."

Security questioned him for a couple minutes before the ejection. As he struggled against guards — at one point waving the sign around and trying to keep it out of one man's hands — others in the room pulled out phones and started recording the incident.

Reports have identified the man as Sam Husseini, the communications director for the the Institute for Public Accuracy.

Husseini writes op-eds for The Nation, a liberal-leaning U.S. magazine. The Nation had credentials for the press conference.

The ejection happened as Trump and Putin held a closed-door meeting with aides at the Presidential Palace.

Here's video of security guards escorting the man out. He was sitting on the left side with the U.S. press, but no one seems to know him. pic.twitter.com/LrQ6VVqi2R

An individual, seated with the American press corps in Helsinki, holds a sign about nuclear weapons, prior to the beginning of a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018.(Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP)